Series: Say Brother
Program: Black Business
Episode: 619
Date: 1976-07-02
Duration: 00:01:00

Subject: African American business enterprises; African American businesspeople - Boston - Massachusetts
People: Bishop, Elbert

Clip Description
Host Thomas Hardy speaks with Elbert Bishop, Director of the South West Corridor Land Development Coalition, and Charles Calvey, owner of Calvey's Jewelers and President of the Dudley Terminal Merchants Association, about what is good about the Roxbury-Dudley Terminal and Dorchester business community and economy, Elbert Bishop talks about the forthcoming South West Corridor project and the 30% set-aside for African American jobs on the construction project.

Program Description
Program focusses on African American-owned businesses in the Boston area. Host Thomas Hardy speaks with Elbert Bishop, Director of the South West Corridor Land Development Coalition, and Charles Calvey, owner of Calvey's Jewelers and President of the Dudley Terminal Merchants Association, about what is good about the Roxbury-Dudley -Dudley Terminal and Dorchester business community and economy, what will be happening in terms of the positive impact of the economy in those areas, what ways are there for African American-owned businesses to move into and participate in the local community, how much money is coming into the Dudley area for the Southwest Corridor Project, how the push for capitalist endeavors affecta the African American community, and what kind of governmental supports there are for African American businesses. Additional segments include a "Black Women in Business" interview with Bunny Jackson, conducted by Producer Marita Rivero. (Jackson, of Atlanta, Georgia, recently started her own business with three other women called "First Class, Inc.," a public relations agency offering local tours and itinerary planning.) Program includes the "Community Calendar." Produced by Marita Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.

Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez.

See also: http://main.wgbh.org/saybrother/programs/sb_0619